Career
Higgins was raised as a Roman Catholic, but now he considers himself a lapsed Catholic. As a teenager he trained to be a priest but gave his training up aged 17 when he began dating. Higgins has appeared onstage in Paul and Black Watch, and in the film Complicity.
He played Alan in Staying Alive, a hospital drama on Independent Television. He has also played Jamie McDonald, an aggressive press officer, in the British Broadcasting Corporation show The Thick of lieutenant and its spin-off feature length film, In the Loop.
In 2009, he appeared as Gil Cameron on the British Broadcasting Corporation drama Hope Springs. He played Michael Dugdale in Channel 4"s acclaimed conspiracy thriller Utopia, in 2013.
He wrote a play titled Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, which was performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in a co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland in November 2008. Higgins wrote the script to a new musical, The Choir, produced by the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and the Ambassadors Theatre Group in October 2015.
